Transcendent Noble

At the beginning of February in the water season, the cold rain has not arrived, and the new wind is beginning.

The wind turned the muddy beach on the Jinshui River into frozen ground. Wearing a lightweight leather armor, Nelson stood on the embankment wall of the Golden Water Control Gate with two fine gold tomahawks in his hands. A group of murlocs fight each other.

More than two hundred murlocs broke through the arrow rain from the sky, running wildly on the tidal flat. Some of them hold fishbone the size of a machete, and some hold simple weapons tied up with wooden sticks and stones, but more murlocs open their mouths full of fangs with their bare hands, squeaking towards them. Charge forward. However, they are greeted by the Copper Wall Iron Bastion composed of giant shield and lance.

Randal Family guards are wearing steel ring mail, holding a 1.6-meter-high, 75-centimeter-wide iron oak tower shield in their left hand, holding a 2-meter lance in the right hand, and standing side by side in a dense and neat formation. . They moved forward slowly at the rhythm of drums, like a huge steel hedgehog smashing into the murloc team.

In the sound of "pu" and "pu" stabbing the body of lance, the murlocs fell to death one after another. Their screams and neighs before they died were shattered by the uniform shouting hammers of human soldiers. The warm blood melted the frozen ground, and the soldiers kept walking, stepping the dead and wounded murloc into the dark silt. More than half of the murlocs were killed and injured and finally turned and fled. The longbowmen in the back row of the phalanx poured a deadly arrow on them. After a few rounds of volleys, only dozens of murlocs managed to escape into the Jinshui River.

In just ten minutes of battle, the mudflat murlocs suffered heavy casualties, and the Randal Family guards were unscathed.

The soldiers began to quickly reclaim the arrows and smoothly end the undead murlocs. Before long, these annoying monsters will gather more comrades to fight back to the tidal flat. Nelson watched his subordinates orderly cleaning the battlefield and organizing the retreat, and his face couldn't help showing a satisfied smile.

War Bear Mercenaries had hundreds of mercenaries in their most glorious time, much worse than those large mercenary groups with two or three hundred warriors. Nelson once ambitiously wanted to build the war bear into a mercenary group of the cream of the crop. However, his ability was insufficient, and the war bear was increasingly difficult in his hands. He could hardly even eat food and was on the verge of collapse. Nelson is now Captain, the guard of the Randal Family. There are 600 well-equipped guards under his command, and it is not only his responsibility to train these boys, but also to make up for the original regret.

Nelson trains his guards with great enthusiasm. Although the York family has provided Randal with the training method of elite soldiers, he still has a brilliant martial skill in his hand, but for the servants For soldiers, actual combat is the best training. Especially after learning that the guards would consume tens of thousands of goldsoul each year, Nelson felt like sitting on pins and needles.

It has been less than five years since Lilia and Nelson became nobles, they still retain the concept of mercenaries that take money to sell their lives. Therefore, when Victor asked the guards to clear the river beach murlocs and practice new tactics, Nelson felt relieved.

The control gate on the Jinshui River is related to the core interests of Centaur Hills. The York family set up a garrison of 1,500 people, specifically responsible for the safety of the control gate. However, the reproduction speed of murlocs is amazing. In just two years, the population of murlocs in Randal's beach reached more than 9,000. In another year, the river beach murlocs will return to the original size of more than 20,000. The confused murlocs have always been audacious. They constantly try to knock down the berm wall, and the combat intensity and logistics consumption of the garrison of the control gate have also increased. The intervention of the Randal Family guards can not only assist the garrison to establish the Murloc Absolute Death Region, but also achieve the purpose of actual combat training, which can be described as one move, two gains.

The season of water is freezing and the murloc disease is alleviated. Most of the murlocs take advantage of this time to return to the river, hunt and eat, mate and lay eggs, leaving only a small amount on the hard beach. Old and weak murloc. This is precisely a good time for the guards to practice combat.

According to Victor's order, Nelson divided the guards into two groups, each of which consisted of 300 men with 60 longbowmen and 240 infantrymen, and practiced in turns. Although the murlocs are relatively weak, they are crazy and aggressive, and their speed and explosive power are even higher than the ordinary person. Nelson is watching from the wall of the embankment. Unless there is a violent murloc, he will not intervene, nor will he Please help from the garrison. Nelson was about to die a few people.

How can a soldier who does not experience the test of life and death become an elite? However, the actual results of these rounds amazed Nelson.

In the past few days, more than 400 murlocs have died under the lance arrow. Apart from a few fools who accidentally fell and were trampled on by their own people, the guards were unscathed. . Such a remarkable record is of course not because the family guards are brave and good at fighting. In fact, the hairless brat in the guards is not good at even lance, but they have the fighting will and terrible killing when they are integrated. force. The entire infantry phalanx imposing manner is like a rainbow, as if a Giant is constantly reaping the lives of murlocs. The rehearsal effect of the new tactics made Nelson amazed and convinced.

"ga zhi"

The heavy wooden door of the fortress of the control gate was pushed open from the inside. Nicole took Victor’s arm and walked out. She was wearing a water blue aristocratic lady's uniform, feet Stepping on the long leather boots, it is curvy and charming. The delicate and pretty face is faintly pink with a hint of pink, which is especially charming against the background of the snow cashmere cloak. As long as she is with Victor, the cold Dame always has a happy look with bright eyes and a chuckle at the corner of her mouth, but at this time she has a bit of laziness and shyness.

The cold outside is deep, but Victor's face is full of spring breeze. In the past two months, like most lords, he has been busy hosting dinners, visiting vassal families, leading small attendants on camping hunting, or meeting with lovers. Victor didn't expect that the leisurely aristocratic life did not negatively affect territorial affairs, but greatly improved the work efficiency of his subordinates. The lord is indulging in enjoyment every day. The senior family no longer has a tight face, and the steward has become amiable. The newly recruited deacons are relaxed. They changed their cautious style and began to devote themselves to their work with a more proactive attitude. And put forward many valuable suggestions. In fact, the abilities and insights of these deacons generally surpass those of the Randal Family's stewards. With them filling up the vacancies, the working ability of the vassal stewards has also been significantly improved.

During this time, all the planting tasks led by Randal were completed, the third giant brick kiln was successfully put into production, and the main canal connecting the first stream reservoir to the Qiangwei Lake was about to be completed. Victor was happy to be happy with his subordinates' performance. Under his advice, Lilia listened extensively to the opinions of managers at all levels, improved the supervision system, reward and punishment system, and promotion system, established the work process of village affairs and town affairs, and basically completed the internal affairs system. Construction.

Victor also began to build a real military system. He was the first to test the actual combat effect of the infantry phalanx, the core of the Big Legion.

The infantry phalanx is a brand new tactic for Nelson, and the battle process is full of surprises. Victor doesn't have much interest. This is just a small square of 300 people. He has already seen the power of a square of 7000 people in the movie. When Victor was bored, he simply pulled Nicole to talk about life, and let Nelson bet on the city wall.

"My lord, madam. The young man of the convoy wiped out more than 100 murlocs!" Nelson exclaimed excitedly.

The members of the Randal Family have never met Sophia. In their mind, Nicole played the role of the Viscountess of Randal. Victor braved the mortal danger to save Nicole, and Nicole's territory was once part of Randal's collar. She herself was the naturally awakened Knight, and only she was worthy of the role of the hostess of the Randal Family. In fact, Nicole's steward and attendants also regarded Victor as the male master. In their opinion, Victor and Nicole's heirs will inherit the two territories. But both Victor and Nicole knew that Sylvia was waiting to adopt their child before letting the sons of the York family marry him.

Any family will not let go of the ancient bloodline of Wind Element affinity.

Victor has nothing to do with this. Nicole is the mistress after all, and her child can only belong to the York family. Sylvia from the very beginning made this idea. She couldn't keep Nicole's people, and she had to let Nicole complete the most important mission for the family. As for the ownership of the Randal leader, the inheritance of the children of Sister Elina is still higher than that of Lilia's.

Nicole doesn't matter, she just wants to be with Victor now, and Nelson's title to her makes her satisfied.

The soldiers under the city wall have collected their arrows and are evacuating the battlefield in an orderly manner. Victor praised: "Nice job!" Nicole licked the messy hair, stared at it, and exclaimed: "So stupid!"

"The murloc is really stupid, he kept lance Hit up." Victor said with a smile. Nicole gave him a sideways glance, and said, "I said those shields are stupid!"

"Uh...are they stupid?"

Nicole nodded said: "The soldiers have Helmet, greaves, arm armor, boots, hand armor, limbs and head are protected. Why carry such a heavy shield? Isn’t it cumbersome? Both rows of soldiers hold such a large shield, they How to fight?"

"My dear, heavy shield soldiers are full-time defense and do not need to fight. This kind of giant shield is actually a mobile city wall that protects the lance soldiers and shooters behind." Victor proudly said with a smile: "This kind of infantry phalanx itself is a mobile castle. Soldiers in the front row will fall, and those behind will take over, ensuring the battle strength and defensive power of the phalanx. You can also use the effect of the infantry phalanx. I see it, both offensive and defensive, there is no stronghold one cannot overcome."

Nicole raised his hand to clean up the cloak for Victor, and said softly: "Victor, I want to say that the infantry phalanx is stupid... You won’t be angry with me, will you?” Nicole turned to Nelson and asked, “Nelson, you are experienced. Have you seen Sasanian or Dodo soldiers form this kind of phalanx?”

"I have seen similar phalanxes, mainly used for marching. No one used giant shields and 7-meter lances in combat. Soldier squads were mostly equipped with bucklers, long swords, spears, crossbows, hard bows, and one-handed long halberd. , Flying axe, their tactics are flexible and changeable. They can use bucklers to form a tortoise-shell defensive crossbow and arrow formation, and they can also be arranged in an assault formation or cover a retreat formation." Nelson touched his head and added: "Madam, this kind of new The formation is a pioneering work!"

Nicole ignored Nelson’s admiration and continued to ask: "Give you 300 Dodo soldiers, can you break this phalanx?"

"I...I just rushed over and broke." Nelson's cultivation genuine Concealed Ox Secret Shape and Spirit Monkey Secret Shape have become a deeply violent warrior. His current physical attribute is stable at 24. Perceive the attribute at 18 points, master Throat Slasher's vibration secrets, and catch up with Silver Knight in strength. He can explode at a speed of 76 kilometers per hour in heavy gold armor, and the longbowman can't shoot through his armor, let alone his speed. The phalanx of infantry is no different from the paper in front of Nelson, but he doesn't think the phalanx of infantry is worthless.

"Madam, the infantry phalanx can turn those rookies into warriors and give them the courage to fight side by side. The blood of the enemy will encourage them to grow."

"Courage is in the heart. There should be a wise lord in the castle." Nicole turned his head and said solemnly to Victor: "Victor, Mrs. Sylvia does not approve of your big Legion strategy, but I support you, but I do not approve of this kind of dullness and rigidity. Useless infantry phalanx." Victor said openly. "Listen to me, okay?" Nicole stretched out her white fingers on Victor's lips and continued: "I started studying your infantry phalanx a few days ago. The reason why these recruits can be there The key to playing battle strength in the formation lies in strict military discipline, never retreat, never escape, and the offender will be killed by the companions behind. Let’s suppose that this infantry phalanx encounters a primeval ogre waving a hemlock tree. What will happen?"

Adult ogre males are generally 2.8 meters tall and weigh about 1,600 pounds. They are strong as an ox and have amazing vitality and self-healing power. As long as their heads can’t fall off and their blood is not drained, even When pierced through the heart, they can also maintain a strong battle strength. The ogre defensive power is also jaw-dropping. Their skin is covered with blistered connective tissue. Once ogre enters a state of fighting, these fat-like tissues will continuously release energy while being squeezed together to become very tenacious. It is also very flexible, and its defensive puncture effect is better than ordinary iron essence armor, not to mention its ability to resist slashing and bludgeoning. Human scholars call this innate talent savage leather, so the fatter the ogre, the stronger it is.

At the time, Bruce was close to Great Knight's strength, and he could not cut off Old Ogre's arm even with the Adamantite Battle halberd. Although this had something to do with Old Ogre’s wisdom, it was also sufficient to illustrate Barbaric Leather. Terrifying. Only military heavy crossbows and ballistas can directly shoot through wild leather. Victor does not believe that the longbow can kill an adult ogre, especially when it wields a hemlock tree.

The wingspan advantage of ogre and the ten-meter-long hemlock tree has exceeded the lance of 7 meters, not to mention that lance is not a threat to them. As long as one sweep of ogre, the infantry phalanx will be over immediately, and strict military discipline will cause heavy casualties to soldiers.

Victor shook the head and said: "That would be a disaster. But..."

"However, a well-trained elite soldier squad tactics properly, plus A little bit of luck can kill a mature ogre.” Nicole took Victor’s words and said: “Flexibility and mobility are the most important. Soldiers cooperate with each other. Some people use heavy crossbows to attract ogre’s attention. I took the opportunity to stab the short spear into Ogre’s...butt. The furious Ogre would only tear the spear off, and it would die within ten days." Nicole blushed and said, "The soldiers will inevitably be killed and wounded, but for sure. The casualty situation is much better than that of the infantry phalanx."

"My dear, you know so much." Victor said with a smile intimately. Nicole raised her delicate chin, triumphantly: "Of course, I have received Knight education and learned all kinds of tactics."

"en. However, I still have to finish. Victor said with his jaw head: "The infantry phalanx you see is incomplete. In fact, the cavalry led by Knight is the main force to kill the enemy. The infantry phalanx is responsible for protecting the longbowmen and heavy crossbowmen, advancing layer by layer, and dividing the enemy. The enemy seems to have been put on the meat on the big chopping board, and the cavalry is a knife for cutting meat." Victor thought for a while and said: "Of course, I can replace the heavy shield with a round shield to improve the mobility of the square."

The most famous Macedonian phalanx was born out of the Greek phalanx. It abandoned the one-meter-diameter bronze shield and replaced it with a two-foot-diameter round shield to gain greater mobility. Victor has seen Alexander conquering the Persian Empire, but he believes that the soldiers here are strong enough to use heavy shields for maneuvering. Since the heavy shield can't defend against the large monster's surprise attack, it is useless. Just replace it with a round shield. Anyway, the soldier's armor is all-round.

"My lord is wise!" Nelson said with a laugh: "I always feel that there is something missing in the infantry phalanx. It turns out that I am missing. Haha!"

"hmph You shame.” Nicole pouted, “I didn’t even talk about using Knight to deal with ogre.” Victor smiled, “Of course the mighty Knight must protect ordinary soldiers. It is Knight’s responsibility to destroy monsters like ogre. Say I'm shameless?" Then, he said resolutely: "The battle is about life and death, and everything is done for victory. The strategy of the large corps includes not only tactics and arms, but also logistics supplies. As far as the infantry phalanx is concerned, it is The most important thing for the effective use of ordinary soldiers’ lethality is serious discipline. Soldiers take obedience to orders as their bounden duty. As long as the army obeys orders and prohibits, it will be invincible!"

"Dear , You said so well." Nicole stared at her sweetheart's shining eyes. Although she was full of tenderness in her heart, she couldn't fully accept Victor's point of view.

"Military discipline is of course important, but you can't let the soldiers die in vain?" Nicole sighed, said: "My dear, the infantry phalanx has two fatal flaws, one is mobility and the second is stiffness. Discipline. It’s better than... Let’s do it once."

Victor raised his eyebrows and said enthusiastically: "Okay! Both sides have the same number of troops, the same arms, 2000 heavy infantry, 3000 lance hand, 3000 longbow Soldiers, 2,000 cavalry, totaling 10,000 people."

"Ten thousand?!" Nicole said in disbelief, widening her apricot eyes. Victor said with a smile: "Ten thousand people are considered to be small. How about? Are you planning to give up?" Nicole gave him a blank look, then turned to the instructed guard beside him: "Rison, you will command."

"Yes, my lord."

Ryson bowed to Victor: "My lord, can you start?" Victor waved his hand: "My phalanx has been set up, and the shields are lined up in two. In the column, the lance soldier is in the center, the archer is behind, the longbow has a range of 400 meters, and the cavalry protects the wings."

"What about the terrain?"

"The plain!" Victor said decisively. The infantry phalanx is most afraid of complex terrain.

"That's good." Risen said: "I use traditional tactics. The 2000 cavalry is divided into two groups to maneuver on the battlefield. The soldiers are composed of 100 platoons. Each team is 20 heavy infantry, 30lances, and 30 lances. Longbowmen, ten platoons are hovering all around the enemy formation."

Victor said with a smile: "My soldier's phalanx has become a ring."

"en." nodded complied, no longer speak. Victor waited for a long time, and asked strangely: "I am a Defensive Array type. I stay on the spot. You can start charging."

"My lord, I am not a brainless murloc." Rui Sen grieved: "I won't rush to Lance."

Yes! That idiot hit Lance? Victor stayed for a moment, stammering: "Then...what do you do? Stare?" Reson replied: "My archers are all scattered and free to shoot your army. Because your army is dense, Every arrow must be hit, and the archer immediately retreats after shooting three arrows. It may not be easy for your longbowman to shoot a moving target." Victor gritted his teeth and said: "My cavalry chases and kills your archer."

"The archer quickly converged with his comrades. Two or three platoons fired at your cavalry, and my cavalry began to intercept. The rest of the archers repeated the previous tactics."

"The infantry phalanx moves forward!"

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"Retreat from the front and continue to attack in other directions."

"I...I will continue to chase."

"My lord, you can't catch up. As long as Keep the phalanx, you will never catch up." Ruisen cautiously said: "You can't catch up, and you can't hide. Army discipline does not allow soldiers to disperse. My soldier platoon can take turns to rest and harass your soldiers. There is no rest. Your cavalry has no infantry cooperation, so I can only wipe out it. Without the cavalry, you will..."

Nelson said painfully, "My lord, we lost."

Didn’t you say that the infantry phalanx is invincible in the whole world? Why did you lose? Victor said unwillingly: "Your soldiers are scattered everywhere, how can you have this kind of cooperation?"

"My lord, soldiers can really do it." Nelson mumbled: "Squad has Gestures, platoon has a flag, and battallion has a horn. We used to cooperate in this way."

Victor looked up to the sky, his face stinky and said: "A hundred thousand people!"

" What 100,000 people?" Nicole looked blank. Victor earnestly said: "The greatest value of the infantry phalanx is to gather the strength of all people. Whether it is elite soldiers or ordinary farmers, they can exert their battle strength in the army. They fight together, they..."

"It's too slow and too stiff." Nicole pursed her mouth to say with a smile: "My dear, don't care about the church's reaction. Do you think the slow army can avoid the volley of the carriage trebuchet." Do you dare to hide from the prohibited soldiers?"

Victor was speechless. He now hates the traversal dramas that promote the invincibility of the phalanx. After thinking about it, it is not difficult for him to find that the most glorious moment of the Macedonian phalanx was in BC. The opponents of the Macedonian phalanx were just a mess of army. Once they charged, they could not stop or turn their heads, otherwise they would be trampled to death by their own people. Although the Macedonian phalanx is highly respected and has won one after another, its flaws are also obvious. The Roman Empire quickly broke the Macedonian phalanx, then the Hun king Attila slammed Rome, and then the Mongolian cavalry swept across Europe. The phalanx failed to defeat the strong enemy, but the Europeans had a special liking for the opposing team and evolved into the Spanish phalanx, which lasted until the first world war. During the Battle of the Somme, the British troops lined up in rows and walked neatly. The Germans killed 60,000 a day with Maxim machines. This was not because the soldiers were stupid, nor because the soldiers were brave, but because of the rigid tactics and discipline that made the soldiers unable to escape. .

Because of the laws of the world, there is no gunpowder and no oil here. The history of tens of thousands of years of human war has pushed cold weapon warfare to Peak. Victor copied the cold weapon tactics on Earth, which is no different from elementary school students to college students. Nicole picked a sergeant and hanged him.

Victor took a deep breath, said with a bitter smile: "My dear, phalanx can always deal with Ant-Man? We will have plenty of food and a huge population in the future. An army of 100,000. We can’t just watch Ant-Man destroy our farmland."

Nicole shook the head, solemnly said: "Victor, Ant-Man will not collapse under any circumstances, but the soldiers No. The phalanx of infantry can't stop Ant-Man! We can't let the soldiers die in vain."

Victor pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "You are right, the leader of Ant-Man is terrifying than ogre."

"Nicole, I must admit that I don't understand military. I need your advice now!"